Pictures: Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights through the years

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A character leaps through thick smoke in an attempt to scare a theme park visitor in the Lair of the Banshees scare zone at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights 26 on Thursday, September 22, 2016. (Charles King/Orlando Sentinel)

A character leaps through thick smoke in an attempt to scare a theme park visitor in the Lair of the Banshees scare zone at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights 26 on Thursday, September 22, 2016. (Charles King/Orlando Sentinel) (Charles King/staff photographer)